What distro are you using? Samba version details? Hmm, I can see that it would indeed cause you a mess - especially with the symlinking. Whilst I can't give you an answer to your question I can ask for a few more details regarding the version numbers of your linux machine. Hopefully some other samba god will be able to help you.
Anyhow all I can offer is to try and manually unmount the share when your on the linux box and you know the windows box is down. Sometimes if umount doesn't work, you can try: umount -f -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
